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Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

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Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat

Saying Co-Worker "Looked Like a Homeless Prostitute" Is Opinion, Can't Be Defamation

Secretary Noem Takes it On The Chin

Alison Gopnik: “Generative” AI is a summarizing machine, not a genuinely intelligent agent — like, say, a kitten

Typists, editors, and arbiters of art. Literary amanuenses like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot shaped modern literature

Could the President Invoke the Alien Enemies Act in Response to the "British Invasion" of Rock Stars Like the Beatles?

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